5 Tips for Building Your Grad School Application List

Posted on by Alison Fortenberry
The exterior of Sonia Sotomayor Hall photographed from University Place.
Sonia Sotomayor Hall, home of the Center for Career Development, which I visited as I built my graduate school application list.

So you’ve decided to apply to graduate school. Congratulations! Now comes the next step: deciding where to apply. As someone who just completed the Ph.D. application cycle, I was surprised to find that this was one of the hardest parts of the process. Researching programs was challenging, and I didn’t know where I would be admitted, so it felt like each school on my list needed to be somewhere I could actually see myself attending. Here are five factors I considered that helped me build a strong application list.

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To Ph.D. or Not to Ph.D.: An Interview with Microbiology Ph.D. Candidate Ciara Sanders

Posted on by Haya Elamir
Showing the person I interviewed to add a face to the name and words

Headshot of Ciara Sanders, Ph.D. student. Photo credit: Ciara Sanders.

For this post, I decided to ask third-year Ph.D. student Ciara Sanders in Dr. Brooks Lab here at Princeton about her experience in molecular biology graduate school. She hails from California and is currently carrying out microbiology research for her Ph.D. For students considering molecular biology research/Ph.D. as a career, these questions may help answer any concerns you have, especially since medical school seems to be the popular option for molecular biology majors.  

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An Interview with Kelly Finke on Finding your Way in Research and the Meaning of Failure

Posted on by Virginia Cobbs
Kelly smiling in a red jacket holding a coffee mug

For this post in our collaboration with Princeton Perspectives Project I dusted off my blog-writing skills and had the pleasure of interviewing 2nd year EEB PhD student Kelly Finke. She uses computational biology techniques to study collective human behavior in Professor Corina Tarnita’s lab.

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